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How often to water vegetables / herbs with garden hose?
My vegetables and herbs are all in pots outside in full sun. I don't have a drip system. I just water my plants by hand with the hose on the mist setting. How do I get the 1" per week amount of ...
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Help identifying plum tree
Location: Maine
Fruit: blue/purple, small, oblong (long)
Blooms: small, white
Leaves: small
Tree:
more bush like - no single trunk, 4-5 main branches split off at base
at ground
10' tall/wide
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Advice with laying a lawn please
This is probably the sort of thing thats been asked a thousand times but I have no idea what I'm looking for
we moved into a house with a lovely huge pond, however now we have our first child and ...
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Could someone help identify these two shrubs?
I am doing an ecology project for biology and we have to identify these plants (genus and species). We're having a bit of trouble, so any help is greatly appreciated!
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How do I keep Grackle's from pooping on my lawn?
Below is what I think is grackle poop on my lawn. (It might not be but I haven't seen any other animals there except desert cottontail rabbits and I know what their poop looks like.) How can I prevent ...
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What to do once flowers have bloomed
I am new to having a garden as I have only just moved into my new house. I have some basic questions regarding flowers after they have finished blooming. My mother-in-law planted some daffodils and ...
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proper drainage in aluminum foil dish, container
I have a bunch of aluminum foil dishes that are maybe 3" deep:
I'm going to fill with soil and put on the roof of my apartment building. How should I prepare the container? Specifically, how do I ...
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transplanting seedlings, why? why not put straight in ground?
I just started gardening, and I'm getting really into it. I live in an apartment and I've been planting seeds in containers and putting them on my balcony. I read the instructions on the seed packet ...
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Does dawn dishwashing detergent kill plants (shrubs & flowers)?
Yesterday I was talking to my neighbor, and he was telling me he was cleaning the trim on his house with Dawn (dishwashing detergent used in the US) mixed in water. I thought I read somewhere that ...
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Can someone help identify these two groundcover plants?
I am trying to identify the purple flowers (and the groundcover plant that they grow from.) The light green leaves on the left of the photo are NOT the same plant. Those leaves are the same as the ...
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How to kill a butterfly bush [duplicate]
I have a large butterfly bush in my back yard that has grown up between fences (the previous homeowner put privacy fence on either side of a chain link fence, so its impossible to get to all of the ...
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Should I re-pot an Aloe vera when it is still blooming?
My Aloe vera flower is in full bloom, and some of its petals are starting to fall. It also has some sprouts.
Should I wait until the flower has completely died down to re-pot the new sprout?
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How much ash can I use on a lawn?
On occasion I end up burning some oak branches in my firepit, which gives me some ash that I typically throw out. At times I have heard it may be beneficial to use it in the lawn, although I already ...
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Snipping First Tomato Blossoms
I just planted my tomatoes, and on the advice of my neighbor, I snipped the first blossoms. After reading other's advice, I think I made a mistake. Will my plants still bear fruit?
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What is causing thin asparagus spears?
We have a 6 to 8 year old bed of asparagus last year late & now this year the spears only grow to about 1/8 of a inch thick & kind of stringy.
What is causing this?
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What is your method of protecting evergreens in the winter time?
I am trying to get a small sense of what most people do to protect their evergreens in the winter.
I personally wrap about 15, 10' arborvitaes each year and going up and down a ladder and around ...
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What options except cutting the tree down do I have if a fir tree is growing too high?
There's a fir tree that is now about seven meter tall and continues to grow and will reach something like 20 meters height. The tree is too close to buildings and too close to plants and so the shadow ...
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Will a branch on a small tree always be at that same height?
We have a lot of trees on the farm (Apple, maple, pear, walnut, oak...) and I've been reading about pruning lately. One of the things I stumbled upon is that when a tree is say five feet tall and has ...
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How to trim spent flowers from a sun star (Ornithogalum dubium)?
I've read several online guides about taking care of sun star plants, but I'm confused about how to trim off the spent flowers. The instructions say to "remove spent flowers from the base, and another ...
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Can I selectively control the spread of Vinca with Roundup?
I don't want to kill it, but I want to keep it from leaving my mulch bed and wandering into my lawn. If I spray the edges of the mass, will it only kill a small amount, or will it kill the whole ...
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What is an aggressive grass that will grow from seed in Maine?
My lawn is a hodgepodge of different grass types - notably Bermuda grass on my front lawn.
Is there a grass that you can seed that will push other grasses out?
For reference I live in Maine.
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How to get rid of Smilax aspera
I need to clean and restore an old olive plantation which was not cultivated for around 20 years and is now covered with weeds, bushes and spruce tree. I'm new to olive trees but have clean almost ...
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What is the name of this apricot and yellow rose?
I am looking to id this rose:
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I am no rose expert, and did a search for apricot yellow rose and there are a million of them. I could just root one, but I would like to ...
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How can I stop a dead tree's roots from popping up in the grass?
I dug up a tree a year ago and the roots seem to still be spreading under ground. Every once in a while I will see it sprout above ground. I keep pulling it out but it comes back. How do I kill ...
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Should I pinch early pear blossoms to encourage stronger tree and better season?
I have a young pear tree that has several varieties of pears grafted on it. It is starting to blossom. Should I pinch these early blossoms? Will the tree divert resources to making more leaves and ...
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How to replace my gas hedge trimmer rope starter
The rope starter for my Craftsman Gas Hedge Trimmer disconnected from the engine while pulling to start.
Please explain how to reattach this rope starter. I am a DIY individual.
Thanks for your help.
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How do I water my two apple trees?
I have two apple trees. I have lived here for three years and I am sure they are a couple of years older than that. They are both producing fruit but I do not know how to water them. Do I put a ring ...
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How do I water my full grown cherry tree?
I bought a house three years ago, the cherry trees appeared to be fruitless. This year they flowered and now have cherries all over them. They are very large adult trees. Do I water them? How often ...
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When planting grass plugs how far apart should they be?
When planting grass plugs how far apart do they need to be if i'm planting saint augustine grass?
Is there anything else i should consider before planting plugs?
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In the south, what are the advantages of saint augustine grass
Are there any advantages of growing saint augustine grass in the south for residential lawns?
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How do I fix the worst lawn on the street?
I inherited this Picasso last year when my wife and I bought our first home. Now, there is plenty of potential, but first and foremost I want to remove all the vegetation I don't want, which ...
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How to reseed my lawn?
A friend of mine told me I should spread seed and then put a half inch of soil over it. I have about half an acre of lawn so this would be a LOT of soil. Is there any way to just spread seed and still ...
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Relocating an apple tree - when should this be done?
A long time ago (about ten years), I put some apple seeds in the ground, and now I have an apple tree. The only problem is that it is too close to the neighbour's house, and might do some damage to it ...
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succulent with rubber plant-like petals, had small yellow flowers when blooming
Got this houseplant as a gift few years ago; lost track of its name; is leggy with rubber plant-like folliage. Has not bloomed again; had small yellow flowers when I got it.
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Care for young Raspberry plants
Last fall I planted 4 raspberry plants from Burpee. They grew a little and then it got cold and they went dormant. Now that it is spring they have been growing again. They are still very small and ...
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Is this normal for a push reel mower?
I have this mower. It worked great last year, but this year it's left my lawn looking like the photos in this album. Believe it or not, I mowed that grass yesterday (not even 24 hours ago).
It is ...
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Is it possible to propagate a Rose from a cutting?
I have a rose that has suffered some wind damage.
Before it dies I would like to take some cuttings to propagate. Can anyone advise if this is even possible and/or offer some guidance if it is?
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Keeping mulch from washing off of banks / step inclines
I have mulched multiple hills and am always looking for ways to keep mulch 'glued' to hill sides. Switching to decorative shale is unfortunately not an option.
I have tried three things:
Ground ...
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Does Trimec kill grasses (fescue)
Located in North Carolina. Mostly a fescue lawn. well established, some new sod from last fall, some new grass seed from this spring. Let, I have weeds. Some areas of my lawn are fighting a good ...
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pondplants with a lack of nutrients?
I have a gardenpond (roughly 16000 litres) which is crystal clear. The pond contains no fish, only amphibians and insect life and a lot of plants. some plants, like the pondweed are real hardhitters ...
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Is it possible to grow the corn kernels from commercial popcorn?
It doesn't seem like there's any process that would kill the kernels, as they're just being dried out. So would it be theoretically possible to grow the kernels into full corn plants? Would there be ...
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Planting 2 tomato plants in one 20-gallon grow pot (Smart Pot)
I bought a few 20 gallon grow pots (20" diameter x 15.5" high), and they look quite big for one plant.
Do you think I can put two plants side by side? That'd be 10 gallons per plant. The only issue ...
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White fungus growing on tree branches
This tree has had a tough time recently. It was heavily pruned by a former resident, and until recently was buried in the middle of a dense bamboo grove. The bamboo visible to the right is 30+ feet ...
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Lawn Mower thinks blades are always on?
I've got a used John Deere LA145. After using it perfectly a few times, it started developing some issues that I am 99% sure has to do with the mower "thinking" the blades are engaged when they ...
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Are my tomatoes and cucumbers dying from overwatering?
I sowed some cucumbers and tomatoes in April and already lost them all. Now the other batch is dying; I presume it might be over watering as I used different compost.
Basically the leaves became a ...
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How do I deal with a pine tree infestation?
My pine tree is heavily infested with some kind of white stuff. It looks like some kind of scales or white powder that is covering all the pine needles. Anyone know how to deal with this without ...
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How can I remove dirt that has blown into my landscaping rock?
We have an empty field by our house that is being made into a subdivision, and now that they have started work on it the wind has blown 6 to 8 inches of dirt in certain spots in among the rock in my ...
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Composting in Madison, WI : Sun or Shade
I have been researching(googling) weather to keep my Earthmachines composting bin in the sun or shade. I've read that keeping in the sun hastens the process, but tends to dry out the mix.
I live in ...
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Composting large amount of loose tea
I recently acquired an Earthmachines composting bin and was wondering if the bin could withstand large amounts of loose tea. We drink lots of tea made from loose tea and it can end up as much kitchen ...
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When should I replant Home depot (Bonnie) tomato plants
I've brought few tomato plants from home depot (Bonnie brand) and they are 5 to 8 inches tall and their roots start poking out from the bottom (and sides) of their (3" and 4") containers.
Seems like ...
